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Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist

by Robert Merrihew Adams

Pages: 438

Contributors: Robert Merrihew Adams

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1994

Subjects: Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,--Freiherr Von,--1646-1716

Table of Contents

Title Page

Preface

Contents

Introduction

I: Determinism: Contingency and Identity

I: Leibniz's Theories of Contingency

2: The Logic of Counterfactual Nonidentity

3: The Metaphysics of Counterfactual Nonidentity

Appendix: 'A Priori' and 'A Posteriori'

II: Theism: God and Being

4: The Ens Perfectissimum

5: The Ontological Argument

6: Existence and Essence

7: The Root of Possibility

8: Presumption of Possibility

III: Idealism: Monads and Bodies

9: Leibniz's Phenomenalism

10: Corporeal Substance

11: Form and Matter in Leibniz's Middle Years

12: Primary Matter

13: Primitive and Derivative Forces

Bibliography

Index of Leibniz Texts Cited

General Index

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